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Agricultural Geography

Definition
⚫ Agriculture refers to the production
of food and goods through farming and forestry.

⚫ Agriculture was the key development that led to


the rise of civilization with the
husbandry of domesticated animals an plants
(i.e. crops) creating food surpluses that enabled
the development of more densely
populated and stratified societies.
⚫ Accroding to johnston (1985)……
agricultural geography has been defined as the
study of spatial variation in agricultural activity
involving both the description of such variation and
attempts to explain them.
Historical Development
⚫ The growth development of agricultural geography is
as old as other account of the geography.
5th B.C to 17th A.d …..
It develops as the study of relation of environment and
its cropping pattern of the region.
Prominent geographer are Greek, Roman and Arab
scholar.
17th to 18th century……..
First book was written by Arthor Young. (1770)
Namely – Enviroment and cropping pattern in england.
He was trying to establish the relationship between
environment and agricultural phenomena.
Humboldt ….
Kosmos (1807)
Describe the agricultural practice and land use in cuba
and South America.
Schwenz …..
Environment and cropping pattern in Germany.
Describe the spatial distribution of crops in Germany
based on tem and rainfall of the region.
Von Thunen…..
Propound the agricultural land use model in 1826. the
basic aim of von thunen work was to explain the price
of farm product and the way in which such prices
control agricultural production on any plot of land.
Engelbrecht (1883)……
He described the crop region of north America.
th
19 Century
Jonasson (1926)……
“Agricultural Region of Europe”.
Baker (1926) ……
“Agricultural Region of North America”.
On the basis of areal strength he divided America into
Wheat, maize, cotton etc Region.
Jones (1928) ……
“Agricultural Region of South America”.
Taylor (1930)…..
Agricultural regions of australia.
Whittlessy (1936)……
Major agricultural region of the Earth
L.D.Stamp (1948)…..
Land of britain: It use and Misuse
Shafi 91961) …..
Land utilization in eastern uttarpradesh.
Grigg (1969)……
The agricultural system of the world: An evolutionary
approach.
Morgan (1971)…….
Agricultural Geography.
Husian (1979)…..
Agricultural Geography.
Singh (1990)….
Agricultural Geography.
Significance
⚫ Agricultural specialist.
⚫ Food Economist.
⚫ The irrigation engineer.
⚫ Regional Planner.
⚫ Transportation Engineer.
⚫ Demographic planner.
Objective
⚫ To examine the spatial distribution of crops.
⚫ To ascertain the spatial concentration of agricultural
phenomena.
⚫ To understand the Crop association and crops
combination change in space and time.
⚫ To study the performance of various crops in a country
or a region.

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